JSI Seminar | Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia?
JSI Seminar: Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia? In-person event On 28 November 2023, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act will come into effect in NSW. The Act allows ill persons having decision-making capacity, acting voluntary, and with less than six months to live (12 months in the case of a …
JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experience
JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experience In-person event U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously maintained that “the life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.” Holmes statement suggests an antecedent question: what is the life of the law? This essay construes …
JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts
JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts In-person event In Judgment SU-151/2020 the Constitutional Court of Colombia rendered its decision on a constitutional complaint of a group of journalists. They claim that in certain criminal cases concerning possible corruption by government officials, prosecutors and judges were unsatisfyingly prohibiting the press to attend public …
JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theory
JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theory In-person event In this talk, Dr Ntina Tzouvala sets out to defend the potential for legal theory of what Edward Said called ‘contrapuntal reading’, Louis Althusser (drawing from Jacques Lacan) described as ‘symptomatic read-ing’, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick denounced as …
Julius Stone Address: The Legal Experience of Injustice
Julius Stone Address: The Legal Experience of Injustice In-person event In The Faces of Injustice, Judith Shklar criticizes the ‘normal model’ of justice which views injustice as ‘a prelude to or a rejection and breakdown of justice, as if injustice were a surprising abnormality’. Her central insight is that ‘the real realm of injustice … does …
JSI Seminar: Lawmativity
JSI Seminar: Lawmativity Hybrid event Explaining the normativity of law – how it guides action by giving reasons – is one of the central questions of general jurisprudence. It is also one of the topics on which there is least agreement. In the first half of the talk, Alex Horne offers a diagnosis as …
JSI Seminar: Children, families, and immigration enforcement
JSI Seminar: Children, families, and immigration enforcement Speaker: Associate Professor Matthew Lister, Bond University What might otherwise seem like straight-forward instances of immigration enforcement can give rise to both practical and moral complications when the objects of the enforcement measures are children and/or have close family ties to citizens or legal permanent residents. In the …
JSI Seminar: Jealousy of trade, from the Scottish Enlightenment to neoliberalism
JSI Seminar: Jealousy of trade, from the Scottish Enlightenment to neoliberalism Speaker: Associate Professor Jessica Whyte, UNSW In this talk, I trace the Scottish Enlightenment debates about what David Hume termed “jealousy of trade”—that is, the transformation of international commerce into a political concern of states and a cause of international conflict. I revisit these …
JSI Seminar: Flourishing in the Anthropocene
JSI Seminar: Flourishing in the Anthropocene Speaker: Associate Professor Nicole Graham, Sydney Law School Progressive property theory presents a recent corrective to atomistic theories that isolate property interests from the network of relations and obligations arising from the sociality of organised human society. The ‘social obligation norm’ that underpins progressive property theory stretches back to …
JSI Seminar: The Conscience of Trust
JSI Seminar: The Conscience of Trust Speaker: Professor Irit Samet, King’s College London At the heart of the modern trust lies a glaring paradox: how has a legal institution that is repeatedly referred to by the courts as rooted in a duty of conscience become infamous for helping individuals to achieve goals that are patently …